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marriage coalition used a clip of the former first lady supporting equal marriage in an interview on cnn three years ago, but here? yesterday said they did not give permission to use that piece of audio and asked that the ad be taken down. >> bill: you know, i don't understand that. >> gee, what courage on her part. it features obama president obama, dick cheney and colin powell. so what the hell, laura? get off of your high horse. you are for it or you are not. if you are, and we know she is then big deal. >> right. >> a tim teboyw is trying to stay out of controversy. he has cancelled appear appearance at a baptist church, set to speak to the 11,000 member of congregation but said new information has come to light which the forced him to change plans. that might be the fact the church is led by robert jeffries who has preached against homo sexuality, against israel and mormonism >> bill: i think he ought to focus on his football career. he disappeared. >> a tough time for american idol could not show business 411 has analyzed ratings. this past wednesday night was the lowest rated wedn
marriage coalition used a clip of the former first lady supporting equal marriage in an interview on cnn three years ago, but here? yesterday said they did not give permission to use that piece of audio and asked that the ad be taken down. >> bill: you know, i don't understand that. >> gee, what courage on her part. it features obama president obama, dick cheney and colin powell. so what the hell, laura? get off of your high horse. you are for it or you are not. if you are, and we...
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that would be bad news, i think, for cnn. >> the end of cnn. all right. sorry about that. distraction here i want you to know that the president yesterday, i was at the briefing room. he came in and called on congress, reminded congress that the sequester, which would cut $500,000,000,000, cost over a thousand jobs, that with this coming, the congress ought to at least if they can't fix the whole problem with the budget they ought to at least pass the short-term thing to avoid the sequester and keep the government running. and john boehner and house republicans immediately said, no. we are not going to do that. here we go again. the party of "no." opposing anything obama wants. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] right have, about the "heavy hand of government" ... i want to have that conversation. let's talk about it. really? you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm o
that would be bad news, i think, for cnn. >> the end of cnn. all right. sorry about that. distraction here i want you to know that the president yesterday, i was at the briefing room. he came in and called on congress, reminded congress that the sequester, which would cut $500,000,000,000, cost over a thousand jobs, that with this coming, the congress ought to at least if they can't fix the whole problem with the budget they ought to at least pass the short-term thing to avoid the...
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the only two senators that we see, week in week out on fox and on cnn and on nbc and on cbs. i mean bob schieffer is a great friend. why the hell did bob schieffer give lindsey graham that time yesterday? i don't get it. don't just go for the easy pickins. give us somebody who is going to have something to say and no more than lindsey graham. and no more john mccain. i will take jon fugelsang, though. he is coming up next. >> heard around the country. seen on current tv this is "the bill press show." [ music ] people with sore throats have something new to say. ahh ! mmm ! ahh ! finally, there's cepacol sensations. serious sore throat medicine seriously great taste. plus the medicine lasts long after the lozenge is gone. ahh ! mmm ! cepacol sensations. (vo) current tv gets the converstion started next. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. [ music ] >> on your radio and on current tv, this is the bill press show. >> you know, we got a great deal for you here on curre
the only two senators that we see, week in week out on fox and on cnn and on nbc and on cbs. i mean bob schieffer is a great friend. why the hell did bob schieffer give lindsey graham that time yesterday? i don't get it. don't just go for the easy pickins. give us somebody who is going to have something to say and no more than lindsey graham. and no more john mccain. i will take jon fugelsang, though. he is coming up next. >> heard around the country. seen on current tv this is "the...
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cnn reports he offered his 14-year-old daughter $200 to quit facebook for five months. a photo of an agreement letter went viral online yesterday. he is giving her $50 in april and the remaining 150 in june if she stays off of the social network until then. a new pew study shows 61% of americans have taken a break from facebook for a few weeks or more but not necessarily for money. >> bill: this is an issue but i don't do facebook. i will not do facebook. i think it is a colossal waste of time and so much is phony. i have adult friends who spend hours befriending people on facebook that they do not know the first frickin thing about and they get excited when somebody friends them that they never freakin heard of. it's insane. insane. >> facebook is the devil. let's be clear. it is the devil. >> meanwhile, like your facebook page at billpressshow >> bill: i see it for a show you would want to be part of something. i do. >> i was anti-facebook for a long, long time. i signed up because i had a lot of friends, far-flung and we said it would be nice to join you up facebook
cnn reports he offered his 14-year-old daughter $200 to quit facebook for five months. a photo of an agreement letter went viral online yesterday. he is giving her $50 in april and the remaining 150 in june if she stays off of the social network until then. a new pew study shows 61% of americans have taken a break from facebook for a few weeks or more but not necessarily for money. >> bill: this is an issue but i don't do facebook. i will not do facebook. i think it is a colossal waste of...
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he is the cnn legal analyst and ours, the one and only avery friedman. avery we need you man. >> oh, yeah. i think i'll enter a plea of insanity, how about that? [ laughter ] >> bill: i thought oscar pistorius might try that. i want to start with that. we know he shot his girlfriend. he admits he shot his girlfriend. will his story hold up do you think? >> at this point he is just trying to get himself out of jail. this is a bond hear going on. and it starts out -- at it's a little bit different from the american system where a department is not obliged to say a thing. but at this bond hearing there is substantial detail which started with his lawyer reading an affidavit and then he starts speaking, and the magistrate who is so typically british or south african says maintain your composure. yes, my lordship he says. and you don't really see that. but it is very very serious in the context of what is going on many people don't know that in south africa bill, it has the world's worst rate of violence against women killed by an intimate partner. >> bill: n
he is the cnn legal analyst and ours, the one and only avery friedman. avery we need you man. >> oh, yeah. i think i'll enter a plea of insanity, how about that? [ laughter ] >> bill: i thought oscar pistorius might try that. i want to start with that. we know he shot his girlfriend. he admits he shot his girlfriend. will his story hold up do you think? >> at this point he is just trying to get himself out of jail. this is a bond hear going on. and it starts out -- at it's a...
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she was asked by cnn about chris christie's weight. and she said it doesn't look so good to me. >> i worry that he may have a heart attack. he may have a stroke. it is almost like a time bomb waiting to happen. unless he addresses those issues before he runs for office. >> she says don't get me wrong you know. i'm not some democrat who would like to -- who wants to see chris christie defeated. just the opposite. >> i'm a republican. so i like chris christie a lot. i want him to run. i want him to lose weight. i worry about this man dying in office. >> bill: whoa. worry about dying in office. now, chris christie who again kept a light approach to this when he was on david letterman. man, he didn't like what he heard from that white house doctor and he told her -- treated her sort of like he treats the public schoolteachers in new jersey. >> if she wants to get on a plane and come here to new jersey and ask me if she wants to examine me and review my medical history i'll have a conversation with her about that. until that time, she shoul
she was asked by cnn about chris christie's weight. and she said it doesn't look so good to me. >> i worry that he may have a heart attack. he may have a stroke. it is almost like a time bomb waiting to happen. unless he addresses those issues before he runs for office. >> she says don't get me wrong you know. i'm not some democrat who would like to -- who wants to see chris christie defeated. just the opposite. >> i'm a republican. so i like chris christie a lot. i want him...
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cnn reports he was joking but the comments come after that country allegedly sent a monkey to space and backs and senator john mccain has taken some heat from making a joke on twitter about ahmadinejad's comments yesterday tweeting so he wants to be the first iranian in space? wasn't he just there last week? it was a link to the monkey article. >> republicans criticizing mccain for that? >> i saw that. >> bill: i don't know. i know i'm supposed to be politically correct. i think it's okay to make monkey jokes about ahmadinejad. >> you're going to get letters. >> bill: peter ogborn. okay. i'm going to start evan, with you, with a story i didn't know about until this morning. broke late last night. and that is about american drone policy. we've been wondering nobody knows how many people we've killed. who makes the decisions -- with drones, how many americans, how many nonamericans, how many civilians, how many were really guilty. it is all a big, dark secret. john brennan is the architect of this policy. his nomination as director of c.i.a. i ran into senator ron wyden yesterday from ore
cnn reports he was joking but the comments come after that country allegedly sent a monkey to space and backs and senator john mccain has taken some heat from making a joke on twitter about ahmadinejad's comments yesterday tweeting so he wants to be the first iranian in space? wasn't he just there last week? it was a link to the monkey article. >> republicans criticizing mccain for that? >> i saw that. >> bill: i don't know. i know i'm supposed to be politically correct. i...